Fisterra
Fisterra or Finisterre means "land's end" and is in Galicia near the northwest tip of Spain. The name refers both to the rugged headland and the nearby village, which had a population of 4700 in 2021.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Niemand Weiß Es, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 2,680 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “15037”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Santa María das Areas and Fisterra town hall.
Church of Santa María das Areas
Church
Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez, CC BY 2.0.
Igrexa de Santa María das Areas is a church in Fisterra, Province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1985. This Romanesque temple was founded around the 12th century.
Fisterra
- Categories: municipality of Galicia and locality
- Location: A Coruña, Galicia, Green Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
42.9065° or 42° 54′ 23″ northLongitude
-9.2638° or 9° 15′ 50″ westPopulation
2,680Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES FNEOpen location code
8CJGWP4P+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 272443612OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Fisterra” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Fisterra”
- Arabic: “فيستيرا”
- Aragonese: “Fisterra”
- Asturian: “Fisterra”
- Basque: “Fisterra”
- Breton: “Fisterra”
- Catalan: “Fisterra”
- Cebuano: “Fisterra”
- Chechen: “Финистерре (Ла-Корунья)”
- Chechen: “Финистерре”
- Chinese: “Fisterra”
- Chinese: “菲尼斯特雷”
- Czech: “Finisterre”
- Czech: “Fisterra”
- Dimli (individual language): “Fisterra”
- Dutch: “Fisterra”
- French: “Finisterre”
- Galician: “Fisterra”
- Georgian: “ფინისტერე (ლა-კორუნია)”
- Georgian: “ფინისტერე”
- German: “Fisterra”
- Hungarian: “Finisterre”
- Hungarian: “Fisterra”
- Interlingua: “Fisterra”
- Interlingue: “Fisterra”
- Irish: “Fisterra”
- Italian: “Finisterre”
- Italian: “Fisterra”
- Japanese: “フィステーラ”
- Ladin: “Fisterra”
- Lithuanian: “Fistera”
- Lombard: “Fisterra”
- Luxembourgish: “Finisterre”
- Macedonian: “Фистера”
- Malay: “Fisterra”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fisterra”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fisterra”
- Persian: “فیسترا”
- Polish: “Fisterra”
- Portuguese: “Finisterra”
- Portuguese: “Fisterra”
- Russian: “Финистерре”
- Slovak: “Fisterra”
- South Azerbaijani: “فیسترا”
- Spanish: “Finisterra”
- Spanish: “Finisterre (España)”
- Spanish: “Finisterre”
- Spanish: “Fisterra / Finisterre”
- Spanish: “Fisterra Finisterre”
- Spanish: “Fisterra”
- Swedish: “Fisterra”
- Tatar: “Финистерре (Ла-Корунья)”
- Tatar: “Финистерре”
- Turkish: “Fisterra”
- Ukrainian: “Фіністерре”
- Ukrainian: “Фістерра”
- Uzbek: “Finisterre”
- Uzbek: “Финистерре”
- Venetian: “Finisterre (Spagna)”
- Venetian: “Finisterre”
- Vietnamese: “Fisterra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fisterra”
- “Fisterra”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Fisterra”. Photo: Niemand Weiß Es, CC BY-SA 2.0.